I have the idea of the basis for this armor but need help fleshing it out as close as possible with the PF rules. It's mainly for a PC that is playing a class i designed. he is an earth magic specialist but is a f/m ish type base class. he's allowed to wear light armor with no spell failure chance.
now the idea is a breast plate made of black marble with natural veins of mythral with leather padding inside, the mythral veins have no effect it's just fluff. the armor can only be used by this class and creatures of the earth subtype. The armor was crafted at a sacred sight on the elemental plane of earth by the shaitan. When worn by this class it's treated for all purposes as light armor.
so far this is what i want it do:
+1 breastplate
when worn by X class and earth types the armor is treated as light armor.
when worn by non specific types the armor weighs as much as normal stone and leather.
so i came up with LEVITATE as spell used to create it. now should the armor being treated as weightless? it would still have armor check penalty, arcane spellfailure, max dex as it's still bulky and not like wearing a shirt.
could i get some ideas for armor check penalty, arcane spellfailure, and max dex and weight for the armor when worn by the specific class AND non allowed classes?
also i could use some help coming up with a cost as well, so far the only rule i see that fits is -30% cost for being so class specific but -30% of what i have nothing to go on.
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I have the idea of the basis for this armor but need help fleshing it out as close as possible with the PF rules. It's mainly for a PC that is playing a class i designed. he is an earth magic specialist but is a f/m ish type base class. he's allowed to wear light armor with no spell failure chance.
now the idea is a breast plate made of black marble with natural veins of mythral with leather padding inside, the mythral veins have no effect it's just fluff. the armor can only be used by this class and creatures of the earth subtype. The armor was crafted at a sacred sight on the elemental plane of earth by the shaitan. When worn by this class it's treated for all purposes as light armor.
so far this is what i want it do:
+1 breastplate
when worn by X class and earth types the armor is treated as light armor.
when worn by non specific types the armor weighs as much as normal stone and leather.so i came up with LEVITATE as spell used to create it. now should the armor being treated as weightless? it would still have armor check penalty, arcane spellfailure, max dex as it's still bulky and not like wearing a shirt.
could i get some ideas for armor check penalty, arcane spellfailure, and max dex and weight for the armor when worn by the specific class AND non allowed classes?
also i could use some help coming up with a cost as well, so far the only rule i see that fits is -30% cost for being so class specific but -30% of what i have nothing to go on.
I would simply treat it as Mithril when worn by the appropriate class/ type and double the ACP, Max Dex, and SF chance (assuming it is to be as cumbersome as stone armor should be) when worn by others.
Maybe use something like Meld into Stone or Freedom of Movement for a required creation spell?
hmm i like the freedom of movement as a spell requirement. anyone got any other ideas? especially calcing a price?
I would look at special material instead of enchantments.
Mithral to lower the type of armor from medium to light +8,000
Dragonhide to get around a class restriction (double masterwork) +700
make the 700x2 because it is an additional effect so
Base Elemental Rock breastplate would be 9,400 g.p before adding any enchantments.
Just basicly make a new special material instead of trying to figure out what spells would make it lighter.
But throw them a bone by remembering that making it special material is akin to making it masterwork.
well thats kinda of the thing, i want it to be stone for fluff -it just feels right with an earth based class. if i just wanted a special material armor i would make it elven chain-medium armor treated as light. but thats not the flavor i'm looking for. the idea is a clestial armor role, but instead of being celestian is earth elemental made/flavor. hence why the description is "black marble with veins of mythral". it's not what it's made of that gives it it's flavor but how,where, and by whom. In the same case of celestial armor , it's not the gold and silver that makes the armor special. The same is true for this Earth plate. Anyone can make armor of stone but Earth plate is a rare specific armor only crafted by a curtain tribe of Shaitan. In the same manor anyone can make mythral chainmail but only elves make ELVEN chain. I have recently found Stoneplate from the adventures armory, it's fullplate and heavy armor but it's a start. im also going to look in 3.5 and see what i find there.